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Brain gains?

11/27/2017

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Last summer I interviewed a renowned (and award-winning) neuroscientist who specializes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research. I found her predictions and ongoing lab results to be both fascinating and hopeful. This feature story was originally commissioned by a leading health content provider but was never published. Its medical board ruled her views might be too hopeful—it chose to err on the side of caution, rather than post a piece that suggests a cure for AD may be on the horizon. I certainly understand this official position; the cutting-edge work presented here is not yet mainstream. Still, I'd like to share my conversation with one of the most respected voices in the field of AD research, so I'll post it here.--LPK

​​Many people think of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as a kind of genetic bullet. One that’s impossible to dodge for an unlucky subset of people who develop this debilitating, degenerative, and (at least for now) always-fatal condition.
 
The surprising news?
 
The latest research from a leading neuroscientist and her team suggests only 1% of all AD patients, those with a specific genetic inheritance, are predetermined to develop it.
 
“There is time to intervene” for the remaining “99% who do not have a single mutation issue. It’s a constellation of factors,” says Roberta Diaz Brinton, director at the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona, and a key founder of the Alliance of Women Alzheimer’s Researchers (AWARE), who was also named “Scientist of the Year” in 2015 by the Alzheimer Drug Discovery Foundation. “This is not an overnight disease.”

She refers to the 20-year window of time—called the prodromal phase—between ages 52 and 72, when initial signs and symptoms of AD—memory loss, cognitive disability, physical decline, and dementia—generally first surface. (Early onset AD, which comprises just 5% off all patients, shows a different, accelerated trajectory, with symptoms appearing before the age of 65.) 

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Time for a Franken discussion, folks.

11/18/2017

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[UPDATE: I wrote and posted this opinion piece on 11/18. As of 11/24, three more women have come forward, claiming Sen. Al Franken groped them during photo ops at various events after he'd been elected to his current office. Franken responded to these allegations by apologizing for making these women "feel badly" while vowing to regain the public trust.]

And, now, Senator Al Franken.
 
(I’d insert the word “sigh” here, but it doesn’t adequately capture the sound of blood retching in my throat.)
 
#YouToo, Al? Really?
 
This is where Democrats, long bearers of the secular high ground (protected elephants, clean air and water, gender equity, civil rights, Nazi trampling, more) must resist the urge to slide into moral relativism.
 
In the past few days some prominent feminists and students of rape culture are outright excusing the Minnesota lawmaker’s gross mauling (actual and photographic) of a Playboy Playmate because Republicans don’t play fair! And ousting him will hurt more women in the long run! Why should WE do what THEY refuse to do? Or so the foot-stomping calculation goes. This argument sounds rather like a strategic war game, with far-removed generals in Washington knowingly giving up a few grunt soldiers on the bloody front to make winning inroads into enemy territory. A tactic that is not only cynical but ice cold to the female victim who seethed in silence for more than decade, and who chose to share her story during a profound social moment/movement when she actually thought she might be heard, and believed.
 
So much for girl power and rallying behind the truth-tellers. Lena Dunham wrote not long ago about how women might lie about what they ate for lunch, but would never, ever lie about rape—unless, of course, when it's one of her groovy male friends being accused. Then they do lie, she now backpedals, granting herself and her pal special exemption. [UPDATE: Dunham, facing a furious and near instantaneous backlash from women, backpedaled her backpedal and apologized.]
 
And what of environmental activist, Hollywood gal-about-town Laurie David, who just begged this offensive question on Twitter:
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Here’s where I must ask Ms. David: Are you seriously scolding women for their REactions to men sticking their tongues down our throats uninvited, rather than men’s despicable ACTIONS for doing so? Demanding we women properly, prophylactically prepare to police guys’ bad behavior in the name of a liberal lawmaker whose clay feet have suddenly, painstakingly been revealed?
 
No. Just: no.
 
I have long admired Al Franken, both for his droll wit and fierce championing of Democratic causes, so I deeply understand the urge to rise to his defense. But the senator chose to talk the talk, publicly and with conviction. Now we must demand he walk the walk, disheartening as it is.
 
How else can we also demand justice for the teenaged victims of Roy Moore? And accountability from our lecherous president, who at last count has either 12 or 13 (depending on which cable news network you follow) women openly accusing him of groping, nonconsensual kissing, even sexual assault, and who has bragged on tape about grabbing women by their pussies? I’m not including in this list the anonymous shadow victim who reportedly pulled her legal case in the days running up to the 2016 election against Donald Trump, claiming the real estate mogul tied her to a bed and raped her in 1994 when she was a 13-year-old aspiring model attending a party at the home of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, now a registered sex offender. After receiving death threats and fearing for her life she retreated once again into the shadows, or so her lawyer Lisa Bloom says.
 
Bill Maher—another hero of mine for his defense of free speech and his skewering of hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle— argues we should not lump Franken in the same category as these other, egregious Republican offenders. Because what’s a little grope or forced French kiss of a grown woman compared to sexually touching a 14-year-old girl, am I right? (He seems to suggest.) While I might agree there IS a spectrum of assault, and levels of both penalty and forgiveness to be debated in some fields, we’re talking about the lauded U.S. Senate here. Yes, Franken admitted his transgression, begged forgiveness and an internal ethics probe, too, which is the absolute opposite response of Moore, et. al., who not only continue to deny but also defy with their refusal to go away.
 
Yet, standards are standards. Applying the same very low bar we set for kindergartners—keep your body parts (hands, mouth) off your neighbor—to 100 senators of both genders seems reasonable. Surely we can find 100 Americans to serve who have not thus transgressed as wholly formed adults?
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Bottom line: We can’t scream about partisan GOP circling of the wagons, sneering down at so-called simple Alabamians who protect their hero, even as we do the very same thing. I’m all for ditching knives and bringing guns to a gun fight, but Democrats must consider the long game here. And the long game, like the arc of justice, bends toward truth and doing what’s unassailably right. And what’s right is not turning a blind eye to wrongdoing just because we like Franken, and his specific brand of politics.
"Applying the same very low bar we set
for kindergartners—keep your hands, mouth, and genitals off your neighbor—to 100 U.S. senators of both genders seems 
reasonable. Surely we can find
100 Americans to serve
who have not thus
​transgressed as wholly formed adults?
"
We’ve already made this mistake once, with Bill Clinton. Ignoring the fallout of that man’s misdeeds—not only perjury under oath (impeached but pardoned) and the sullying of the highest office of the land, but the power imbalance of a president getting involved with a 22-year-old intern, a forbidden work relationship that would see any other Fortune 500 CEO fired, not to mention the many women Trump trotted out during last year’s debates to remind us all of Bill’s long list of female accusers who were then viciously sullied, too, and often by Democrats—while pretending it would not sink Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid in 2016. The country remembers. Many folks—Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike—were deeply offended not only by this gross display but by how Hillary stood by her man, Tammy Wynette grinning in the background, whilst throwing a few of Bill’s female accusers under the bus as she did so. Her “vast, right-wing conspiracy” theory refused to examine the serious, perhaps even criminal failings of her husband, and her own complicity in covering up his seemingly uncontrollable appetites. As did Gloria Steinem and a cadre of vocal feminists at the time, who together went on record explaining why Bill should be forgiven, even as they trashed Monica Lewinsky for being just another frumpy, frivolous little tart.
 
Democrats, we can’t demand Republicans clean up their side of the fence if we refuse to look at the crap in our own backyards. It’s that simple.
 
You want to block Roy Moore’ senate bid? Trot out the Access Hollywood tape as irrefutable evidence the most powerful man in the world must be removed from office? Then don’t be a bunch of hypocrites. Yell louder. Demand justice. Stand for what’s right. Stand for women. And don’t excuse an assault simply because the perpetrator plays on your—our!—team, and the accuser is into target practice and has been known to pose in the nude on occasion.
 
I love you, Al Franken. I do! But you gotta’ go. And if you step down we can better make the case against the other men who abuse women, and their positions of power, too.  
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Fitter kids are smarter students.

11/17/2017

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Turns out the snarky myth about the school jock being dumb couldn't be further from the truth. Research shows fitter students generally do better academically—because daily exercise promotes neuroplasticity in the brain, boosting learning potential in kids, says John J. Ratey of Harvard Medical School. (Why, exactly, are we universally cutting P.E. classes from the school schedule, again?) Here's my story in WebMD Magazine. (See pg. 32 in the digital edition.) 
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Mission to Mars.

11/14/2017

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I interviewed two top researchers working closely with NASA to learn what preparations are being made now to safely send astronauts of both genders to Mars—by the 2030s. (For those keeping count, that's a mere dozen or so years from now ... exciting!) Did you know kidney stones and bone density loss are two of the biggest physical challenges to long-term space travel? And that when it comes to baselines among genders in space, there are no measurable differences? Don't just watch this space, scroll to pg. 14 to learn more about our mission to Mars in the digital edition of WebMD Magazine's Nov/Dec issue, out today.
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Not-so-funny business.

11/12/2017

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Photo by TIFF.
I don’t want to loathe Louis C.K. I like to think of him as a single dad full of foibles, trying to raise two girls into strong women as he grapples with his own messed up emotional life in frantic, digitally driven, often-alienating New York City.
 
I like Louis. I might even love him.
 
The realism of his FX sitcom “Louie,” now scrubbed from the cable network, is bone-cuttingly close, which is why it’s so absurdly funny, and why I’ve watched individual episodes, on repeat, countless times. He’s my adult version of “The Brady Bunch”: tune in, mouth the lines along with Lily and Jane and Pamela and Bobby—he even gave us a Bobby!—then laugh out loud, even when the joke is as familiar as a friend. Back in the 1970s I used to run home after school as a latchkey kid to watch Marcia & co. throw footballs, cut records, and woo Davey Jones. The Bradys made me feel safe in a chaotic, sometimes lonely world of divorce and confusion. Similarly, since 2010 “Louie” has been my entertainment comfort food, a funny alternative to “alternative facts,” bickering pundits, and increasingly stomach-turning cable news reports, after I’d put my own kids to bed.
 
Until the recent revelations of his own version of toxic masculinity came out in The New York Times, I even considered him a hero. A hero of what, you ask? Human frailty. And excess, be it food or sex or sleeping too much to escape. Even his incessant masturbation jokes came off as a pathetic plea, one he knowingly winked at as he invited us to laugh at, and along with, him—and not a menacing power play. (With the exception, of course, of the “rape” episode, “Pamela, Part 1,” a distressing plot line that should not be overlooked, or written off.) He let us know it was OK—even normal—to be a little uncouth, vaguely depressed, sloppy, enslaved to the indignities of bodily functions, bemused and bothered by parenthood, lost in a relationship, pathetic and even a bit pervy at times. His utter bafflement about modern adulthood sent a message: Hey. I’m just like you. I might not live or act like Louie (not Louis, but his lovable alter ego on the show), yet his unflinching, open book presentation of his many flaws is undeniably reassuring in this auto-corrected, Photoshopped era of never-ending filtered selfies and promoted, if fake, perfection.
 
Still, reel life and real life are two very different things. Because he’s not just like me. Or any of the female comics he wielded enormous power over as he entrapped them in his own warped way of getting himself off. As he and his team of male cronies knowingly stripped them of career advancement. And that’s just gross.
"Reel life and real life are two very different things.
Because he’s not just like me—or any of
the female comics
he wielded enormous power over
as he entrapped them
in his own
warped way of getting himself off.
"
So, I guess it’s over. For him, and for me. It’s a bummer, Louis. Like so many women I’m left wondering, “Why?” The man is exceedingly talented, which led to enormous fame and wealth. Why the need for him to literally rub it in our faces? What he’s accused of, and what he publicly admits to doing, is so egregiously hostile. To women and to girls. (Oh, what do his girls think of their father now? How can he face them?) The false front of using his own foibles as fodder is just that: an act.
 
Which means I never really loved you, Louis. Nope. Not at all.
 
And just like that, another hero takes a fall. ​
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How unemployment impacts your health.

11/7/2017

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We all know losing a job is one of life's most stressful events. But were you aware long-term unemployment can negatively impact both physical and psychiatric health, and even lead to an early death? I just interviewed Dr. Robert Leahy, Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell University Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, on this subject. The research is alarming: higher rates of heart disease, depression, insomnia, and even criminal activity and mortality rates, including suicide. Leahy offers guidance to those battling high levels of stress while searching for a new opportunity. I'll post the story when it's live on WebMD.
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They even find humor in a tumor.

11/3/2017

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Just interviewed comedian Jim Gaffigan and his writing partner wife, Jeannie Gaffigan, who had a six-cm. benign tumor removed from her brain stem last April. They candidly discussed her health crisis with me, from surgery to Jeannie's long recovery, plus talked about parenthood and their five children—and how the experience is now shaping their outlook on life, love, family, and Jim's standup comedy career. Look for this WebMD Magazine cover story next March! I'll post it then.
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    Celebrity Health 
    _Kristin Chenoweth
    _Bear Grylss
    ​_Mayte Garcia
    _Malcolm Gladwell

    _Trevor Noah 
    _Gloria Estefan 

    _Ann Romney
    _Taye Diggs
    _Tiffany Haddish 
    ​_Lesley Stahl
    _Annette Bening
    _Marcia Gay Harden

    _Sharon Stone
    _Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan (BRAIN & LIFE)

    _Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan (WEBMD) 

    _Jack Johnson & 13
    Inspiring Ocean Heroes
    ​_ Jack Johnson Q&A (extra)

    _Zoe Saldana

    _Seth Meyers
    _
    Seth Rogen and
    Lauren Miller Rogen

    _Curtis Stone

    _Cameron Diaz
    _Adrian Grenier
    _Neil Patrick Harris

    _Laura Prepon

    _Joe Manganiello
    _Chelsea Handler
    _Matthew McConaughey
    _Jimmy Fallon

    _Chris Rock
    _Hilary Swank
    _Demi Lovato
    _PBS Chef Ed Kenney
    _Queen Latifah (USA Today)
    _Queen Latifah (WebMD)

    _Jenna Bush
    _Rob Lowe
    _Seth Rogen
    _Roseanne Barr
    _Kerry Washington

    _Abigail Breslin
    _Marcia Gay Harden

    _Maggie Q.
    _Anna Kendrick
    _Lucy Liu
    _Ty Burrell
    _Kermit the Frog 

    _Christina Applegate 
    _Anna Kendrick 
    _Reid Scott 
    _Alicia Keys 
    _Claire Danes
    _Debi Mazar
    _Chris O'Donnell 

    _Julie Bowen
    _Taraji P. Henson 

    _Alanis Morissette 
    _Carrie Fisher 
    _Harrison Ford 
    _Kellan Lutz

    _Ang Lee 
    _Stanley Tucci 
    _Sheryl Crow 
    _Lisa Ling

    _Julia Louis-Dreyfus 
    _Joan Didion 
    _Serena Williams
    _​Liev Schreiber
    _Alicia Silverstone
    _Julianne Hough
    _Kelly Ripa
    _Katherine Heigl
    _Amanda de Cadenet
    _Jamie Oliver (WebMD)
    _Jamie Oliver (Wash. Flyer)
    _Tyler Perry
    _Taye Diggs
    _Lauren Graham
    _Tony Goldwyn
    _Curtis Sittenfeld
    _Stephen Moyer
    _Stanley Tucci
    _Ashley Judd
    _Soledad O'Brien
    _Marcia Cross

    _Andre Agassi
    ​_Martina Navratilova

    _Christina Hendricks
    _Louis Black
    _Aaron Eckhart
    _Amy Brenneman
    _Ana Villafane
    _Dana Delany
    _Cote de Pablo
    _Danica McKellar
    _Casey Wilson
    _Torchwood: Miracle Day
    ​_Tia and Tamara Mowry

    _Sonequa Martin-Green
    _CNN's Wolf Blitzer
    _Olivia Wilde

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    The Environment 
    _The "Genius" Landscape Architect Who Is Redesigning Coastlines

    _Researchers Who Measure Plastic Waste in Our Oceans Sound the Alarm

    _Why We Must Save the Whales—to Breathe

    _Meet Hillary Hauser, Citizen Advocate Behind Heal the Ocean

    _The Two Teens Who Took On Plastic Bags—and Won

    _This Actor Used to Suck—and He Wants You to Stop Sucking, too, for a #Strawless Ocean

    _The Wayfinding Wonder Who Sailed Around the Globe to Teach Us About Caring for Planet Earth


    _Two Cousteaus Who Advance  Jacques' Legacy

    _This Hawaiian Chef Is Leading the Sustainable Food Movement

    _Meet the Researcher Behind The Bahamas Plastic Movement

    _This Singer-Songwriter Wants You to Fall in Love With the Sea

    _Paper vs. Plastic Bags? Which Do More Damage to the Planet & Our Health?



    Health & Wellness
    _The Obesity_Chronic Disease Connection: a Special Report
    ​
    ​_10 Revealing Truths About Chronic Sex

    _Work Capitol Hill Like This Blood Clot Survivor (click link for all four installments)

    _Tell Us How You Really Feel About COVID-19

    _"I Had COVID-19. Here's What Happened." (Reported in mid-March 2020, very early days of the pandemic.)

    _Helping Kids Cope With MS

    ​_Meet a True Crohn's Disease Warrior

    _Q&A With a Pediatric MS Nurse WHo Runs a Special Summer Camp

    _Developments in Peanut Allergy Desensitization Therapy (pgs. 25–26)


    _Medications, Treatments, and Habits for Migraine

    _The Dangers of Sugar Consumption in Kids (pg. 26)


    _Why Mediation Apps Are All the Rage
    ​

    _Have You Shared Your Bucket List With Your Doctor? (pg. 19)

    _The Stigma of Alzheimer's May Prevent Its Cure

    _The Long-Term Health Effects of Toxic Stress in Childhood (pg. 25)

    _Is "Drunkorexia" Really a Thing? (pg. 30)
    ​
    _PTSD in Everyday People
    (pg. 15)


    _Music Therapy for the Mind and Body (pg. 17)

    _Depression and Early Death in Women (pg. 13)

    _Mental Health Myths 
    (pgs. 14–15)
    ​

    _The Serious Health Risks of Unemployment


    _Sedentary Teens May Just Need More Sleep

    _Do Online Therapy Sites Really Work?
    ​

    _What Is Coercive Control?

    _New Brain Gains in Alzheimer's Research

    _Weighty Matters

    _Mission to Mars: Keeping Astronauts Healthy (pg. 14)

    _Toxic Office = Poor Health
    ​
    ​_New Research Shows Fitter Kids Make Smarter Students


    _Health Heroes
    ​
    _Jamie Oliver's School Lunch Revolution

    _Does Your Family's Genetic History Define Your Future Health? (pg. 22)


    _Taking a Shot at
    Anti-Vax Beliefs

    ​_Holiday Spoils


    _7 Tips for Female Docs Who Also Want to Start a Family

    ​_Your Pet's Health

    ​_Tips for Adopting a Rescue Pet

    _First-Ever WebMD Health Heroes (an ongoing editorial franchise)



    Healthy Tech
    _Parenting in the AI Age
    (pgs. 23–24)

    ​_Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: What's on the Horizon? (pg. 19)


    _How to Fight Narcissism in a Selfie-Obsessed World (pg. 29)

    _Why We're All Digital Addicts (pg. 14)


    _Managing Kids & Online Video Games 

    _Teens & Tech

    _Can Your Kid's Cell Phone Cause Cancer?

    _Cyber Safety for Kids


    _Why You Should Ban Smartphones at Your Kid's Slumber Party​

     
    Healthy Parenting
    _The Importance of Play

    _Why Guns in the Home Should Be a Parent's Biggest Safety Concern

    ​_When Millennial Adults Move Back Home: a Parents' Guide


    _Is Your Teen Up to Date on Important Vaccines?


    _Don't Fat-Shame Girls

    _The Emotional Challenges Blended Families Face

    _Kids: The Collateral Damage of Divorce (pg. 25)

    _Kids and "Cutting"


    _How to Battle Obesity in Kids

    _Toxic Kid Friendships

    _Why Your Teen Needs More Sleep

    _On the Road With Young Drivers

    _Help Your Kids Excel in Sports

    _How to Talk to Your Teen

    _Is Your Daughter Going Through Early Puberty?

    _Guns & Playdates

    _More on Guns & Playdates

    _Zero Hellfire in My Home


    _5 Things to Tell Your "Loser" Kid

    _Judy Blume's Books Continue to Inspire Kids

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    Healthy Lifestyle
    _Ocean Heroes

    _Have You Seen My Dog?

    _Ruby: The Rest of the Story


    _The Great Escape: Traveling With Little Kids

    _New Kids On the Block

    _Three Cities for a Song

    ​_How "Reality Bites" Accurately Predicted the Future of Gen X​

    _Sample Washington Flyer cover: Leonardo DiCaprio, whom I booked as EIC for first-ever "Green" Issue



    Musings & More     
    _On the Male Response
    to #MeToo

    _On Louis C.K. & "Exposed"
    Toxic Masculinity

    _Our Al Franken Problem

    ​_After Charlottesville, What is Freedom?​

    _Too. Much. Information.

    _Dear Madonna: We Aren't Ageist—You Are


    _My Facebook Freeze

    _How the Band Haim
    Rocked My World

    _Facing Aging With
    (Tough) Love


    _How to Love a Dog Without Losing Your Heart

    _On Mothers & Daughters

    _It's Your Daughter's Turn

    _Better Late (A Lesson From My Long-Lost Father)

    _The Death of Sexy?

    _Marriage Equality: The Reverend Wore Pink Pumps

    _Do You Ever Consider
    the Kid You Once Bullied?


    _Lean In to Life

    _The Women of "Mad Men"
    Are the Characters We'll Most Miss

    _Why TV Land's "Younger" Is a #MissedOpportunity


    _6 Pithy Parental Comebacks I Learned From My Mother

    _The Anti-Betty Draper Letter to My Girls

    _Don Draper Did Do Coke

    _The Day My Daughter's Lovey Went Missing

    _Are You A Myers-Briggs School Mom? 

    _11 Books & Films That Make Us Bawl Like Little Babies
      
    _That Stranger Danger
    Video Is Short on Facts

    ​
    _Loving Tips for Grieving
    the Family Pet


    _Lockdown Drills Are the Least We Can Do to Protect Our Kids

    _Joan Rivers: Mother
    of Invention

    _In Defense of Helicopter Parents

    _What If You Knew What Your Spouse Would Look
    ​Like in 60 Years?

    _Yes.


    _Portrait of a Woman

    _Your Real Best Friend

    _My collected writing for The Mid, now merged into Scary Mommy 



    Travel Guide
    _Author of Frommer's
    WASHINGTON, D.C. DAY BY DAY (2007)


    CV
    _My professional experience


    PAINTINGS
    _Father and Son
    _Portrait of Kristine
    _Girls at the Diner, 7 a.m.
    _Dive
    _Plum Is 2
    _Embrace
    _Toes
    ​_Ophelia
    _Nancy's Mother
    ​_A Dog I Loved
    ​_Footrest
    ​_Woman's Best Friend



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    2007–2023



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